American Southern

Cure for Rheumatism

Name: Cure for Rheumatism
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Cuisine: American Southern
Ingredients: 1 lb sarsaparilla; 1 each cherry bark (off the root); 1 oz bittersweet root (do. likely means 'ditto' or 'same as previous'); 0.5 lb sweet fern; 0.5 lb wintergreen; 4 cups rum; 2 cups prickly ash bark (do. (ditto) implies same quantity as previous item)

Historic recipe from Malinda Russell's 1866 cookbook "A Domestic Cook Book". Page 40. One of the earliest known cookbooks by an African American author.

15 minPrep Time

30 minCook Time

8Servings

mediumDifficulty

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